timeline tuesday by Sofia Kozlova (Student)

beginning of American History

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period name and date:period characteristics

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Direction Note :

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present day

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period name

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native americans

period special dates

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2200 B.C.- Tower of Babel(Genesis 11:1-9)

2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D.

1607-Early settelment at Jamestown

period characteristics

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Oral literature: epic narratives,creation myths,stories,poems,songs
Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natrual world
deep respect for nature and animals
cyclical worldview
figurative language/parallelsim.

additional events and facts

skozlova — 2025-09-30 16:16:22 UTC

Many Native American tribes used "winter counts" pictographic reocrds painted on hides to keep track of years and significant events.
Native American oral traditions were not just entertainment -they were considered sacred, and storytellers were often respected community leaders responsible for passing on cultrual identity,laws and spiritual beliefs.

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Period Name

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Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies
1600-1800

Period Special Dates

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1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

1692: Salem Witch Trials

1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Period Characteristics

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1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives.
2. South to "purify" the Church of England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament.
3. Saw religion as a personal, inner experience.
4. Believed in original sin and "elect" who would be saved.
5. Used a plain style of writing

Famous Authors and Works

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William Bradford
-"Of Plymouth Plantation"

Anne Bradstreet (poetry)

John Edwards
-"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Edward Taylor
-"Huswifery"

intresting fact

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Puritan communities enforced strict religous and moral rules, like working,playing or travelling on sundays was forbidden. breaking these rules can result in public punishments.

intresting fact

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puritans values community input, and the tradition of town meetings.

period name

skozlova — 2025-10-14 21:10:25 UTC

Rationalism

"The Age of Reason"

"The Enlightenment"

period special dates

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1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

period charcteristics

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1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets

2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition

famous authors and works

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Benjamin Franklin
—Autobiography

Patrick Henry
—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"

Thomas Paine
—"The Crisis"

Phyllis Wheatley
—poetry

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

first intersting fact

skozlova — 2025-10-14 21:18:01 UTC

the war offically began with the battles of lexington and concord in April 1775

second interesting fact

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foreign allies like france,spain, and the netherlands provided crucial support to the American colonists

third intresting fact

skozlova — 2025-10-21 07:19:49 UTC

The Enlightment highlighted that reason rather than tradition,religious authority,or unquestioning faith is the primary path to undertsanding. Philosophers contended that humans can employ their reasoning to comprehend truth and nature.

fourth fact

skozlova — 2025-10-21 07:23:40 UTC

This era established the intellectual foundation for significant political transformations,encompassing the concept of natural rights,constitutional governance,and the division between church and state

period name

skozlova — 2025-10-26 11:02:47 UTC

Transcendentalism

"The American Renaissance"

Period Special Dates

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1840-1860
Transcendentalism

1845

Thoreau begins living at Walden pond

Period Characteristics

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1. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.

2. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.

3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition.

4. Important social and political movements include the Abolitionist, Utopian, and Women's Suffrage Movements

Famous Authors and Works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

interesting fact #1

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interesting fact #2

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Transcendentalism emerged in New England roughly between 1830 and 1855, asserting that individuals could attain truth through intuition and their relationship with nature instead of through logic or institutions.

period 2020-2025

skozlova — 2025-10-29 22:22:51 UTC

first interesting fact taking a stand

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Kamala Harris - breaking barriers in US politics.

In 2020, Kamala Harris achieved a hisotric milestone as the first woman, first black woman, and first Asian American elected as Vice President of the United States. Her achivment demonstrated that women and individuals of color can attain the highest positions in governement. Harris took a stand for equality and representation, motivating youth everywhere to have faith that no aspiration is too big to achieve.

second interesting fact of taking a stand

skozlova — 2025-10-29 22:41:32 UTC

Sventlana Tikhanovskaya - Advocating for democracy in Belarus.

Svetlana challenged Europes "last dictator" Alexander Lukashenko, following her husbands imprisonment for opposing him. Despite being forced to leave her homeland,she persisted in advocating for free elections and human rights for Belarus from another country. Her courage demonstrates how an individuals voice can ignite a movement for liberation.

intresting fact #3 transcendentalisim

skozlova — 2025-10-30 20:00:02 UTC

In 1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson published Essays, First series, which included "Self Reliance".This piece emerged as a key work of Transcendentalisim,urging individuals to rely on their own feelings and convictions rather than conforming to societal norms.

Period Name

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Romanticism

Industrialization

Period Special Dates

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1800-1860

The war of 1812

1812-1815

California Gold Rush

(1848-1855)

Period Characteristics

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1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.

2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.

3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and sought unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.

4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual

5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination

6. Dark Romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)

Famous Authors and Works

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Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

Interesting fact #1

skozlova — 2025-11-16 14:42:07 UTC

Romanticism rejected many Enlightment ideals-such as strict rationally, balance, and order, in favor of emotion,imagination, and the subjective experience.

Interesting fact #2

skozlova — 2025-11-16 14:47:00 UTC

The Industrial Revolution brought technological changes like new iron and steel,new energy sources like coal,steam and a bit later electricity. Also two new machines the spinning jenny and power loom.

Interesting fact #1 Puritans

skozlova — 2025-11-19 11:39:10 UTC

Puritans Sunday chruch services could last for up to six hours.

Interesting fact #2 Puritans

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Puritans goal was to "purify" the Church of England by removing elements they saw as leftover from Roman Catholicism

#1 Interesting fact about McCathyism

skozlova — 2025-11-30 13:58:07 UTC

Thousands of people lost their jobs or had their reputations damadged, even if they had no real connection to communism. This shows how it not only affected th Hollywood and Congress but also the everyday life across the country.

#2 Interesting fact about Red Scare

skozlova — 2025-11-30 14:03:54 UTC

During that time, even librarians and books came under suspicion, some "subversive" works accused by anti-communitsts included classic American Novels. This again shows the fear of communism affected not just politics but the everyday life. https://www.thehistorycat.com/us-16-2/red-scare-america

#1 Interesting fact about E.E. Cummings

skozlova — 2025-12-11 12:04:05 UTC

He didn't actually insist on lowercasing his name. Publishers did that on their own- Cummings himself often used capital letters when signing

#2 Interesting fact about E.E. Cummings

skozlova — 2025-12-11 12:07:44 UTC

He was jailed in France during WWl. This inspired him to write his famous book The Enormous Room. https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2020/11/23/incarceration-of-e-e-cummings-part-1/

#3 Interesting fact about E.E. Cummings

skozlova — 2025-12-11 12:11:06 UTC

E.E. Cummings painted hundreds of artworks in his lifetime. He was also a skilled painter and even exhibirted art in galleries.

#1 interesting fact about Emily Dickinson

skozlova — 2025-12-12 12:46:04 UTC

She wrote nearly 1,800 poems, but only 10 were published while she was alive. She kept a lot of her work private and shared it only with close people.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson

#2 Interesting fact about Emily Dickinson

skozlova — 2025-12-12 12:53:42 UTC

Emily Dickinson had a very unique style. Often she ignored traditional grammar and punctuation rules, using dasges and unusual formatting because it helped express her ideas better. https://mhoagland.medium.com/emily-dickinson-cbb6355ad070

#3 Interesting fact about Emily Dickinson

skozlova — 2025-12-12 12:58:59 UTC

Emily Dickinson was known for her gardening and frequently included flowers, seasons, and nature in her poems because she observed them up close. https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emily-dickinson/biography/special-topics/emily-dickinson-and-gardening/

#1 Interesting fact about Ralph Waldo Emerson

skozlova — 2025-12-18 18:45:55 UTC

He was a leader of the Transcendentalist movement. A philosophical and literary movement that emphazised individual intution, nature and spiritual experience over traditional religious doctorine and rationalism. Many of it he expressed in his first major work "Nature"

#2 Interesting fact about Ralph Waldo Emerson

skozlova — 2025-12-18 18:49:39 UTC

Emersobn was friends with Henry David Thoreau. Emerson would sometimes praise higher education just to tease Thoreau, creating a friendly tension between their ideas.

#3 Interesting fact about Ralph Waldo Emerson

skozlova — 2025-12-18 18:52:28 UTC

Emerson lost his father when he was very young. His father, Reverend William Emerson, died when Ralph was just 7 years old, leaving him and his sibilings to be raised by their mother and aunts.

period name

skozlova — 2026-02-08 11:00:25 UTC

Realism

1850-1900

period special dates

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Civil War

1861-1865

Reconstruction Era

1865-1877

Period Characteristics

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1. Feelings of disillusionment.
2. Common subjects: slums of rapidly growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, corrupt politicians.
3. Represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible (Regionalism).
4. Sought to explain behavior (psychologically/socially).

Famous Authors and Works

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Mark Twain
-Huckleberry Finn

Jack London
-Call of the Wild
-"To Build a Fire"

Stephen Crane
-"The Open Boat"

Ambrose Bierce
-"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Kate Chopin
-"Story of an Hour"
-The Awakening

1 Interesting fact: Realism grew out of historical events

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After the Civil War, writers reacted against Romanticism's idealized stories and instead focused on life as it really was. Realism has become the dominant style in American literature in the late 19th century.

2 Interesting fact- Mark Twain

skozlova — 2026-02-08 11:34:24 UTC

Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and he chose the pen name "Mark Twain" from a riverboat term that meant water two fathoms deep - a safe depth for steamboats on the Mississippi River, reflecting his time as a riverboat pilot.

Ambrose Bierce Interesting fact #1

skozlova — 2026-02-15 12:12:13 UTC

Ambrose Bierce wrote dark and sardonic short stories that were centered on death and horror.

Ambrose Bierce Interesting fact #2

skozlova — 2026-02-15 12:14:51 UTC

Ambrose Bierce had seperated with his wife, lost his two sons and broke many friendships over the course of his career.

Ambrose Bierce Interesting fact #3

skozlova — 2026-02-15 12:20:37 UTC

Bierce experiences in the Civil War has strongly influenced his writing, providing material for his best known stories.

Alice Walker Interesting fact #1

skozlova — 2026-03-02 20:27:40 UTC

Walker's most popular work is the novel "The Color Purple". It won the Pulitzer prize and was then adapted into a flim.

Alice Walker Interesting fact #2

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Alice is blind in one eye. When She was 8 years old she got shot accidentally with her brothers gun.

Alice Walker Interesting fact #3

skozlova — 2026-03-02 20:44:20 UTC

The Colors Purple's Shug Avery was based on Ma Rainey. She was also a influential African American Blues artist. Alice Walker used her as an inspiration when creating one of the main characters in her novel.

Period Name

skozlova — 2026-03-31 15:36:14 UTC

Modernism
1900-1950

Period Special Dates (enter each by date)

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World War I
1914-1918

The Great Depression
1929-1939

World War II
1939-1945

Period Characteristics

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1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the "American Dream": the independent, self-reliant, individual will triumph.
2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form over the traditional.
3. Interest in the inner workings of the human mind (ex. Stream of consciousness).

Famous Authors and Works

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Lorraine Hansberry
-A Raisin in the Sun

F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner
-"A Rose for Emily"

Eudora Welty
-"A Worn Path"

Robert Frost
-poetry

T. S. Eliot
-The Waste Land
-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

John Steinbeck
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath

Modernism Interesting fact #1

skozlova — 2026-03-31 15:44:41 UTC

The early 20th century saw growing globalization and international connections, especially in science and communitcation.

Modernism interesting fact #2

skozlova — 2026-03-31 19:22:24 UTC

Around 1900, science was going through a major revolution. People realized reality might be more complex than it seemed.

The American dream 20s interesting fact #1

skozlova — 2026-04-08 10:39:14 UTC

In this decade, women officially got the right to vote. Many women joined the flapper movement. Some women became the most recognizable participants in the 20s.

The American dream in the 20s Interesting fact #2

skozlova — 2026-04-08 10:43:22 UTC

The classic american novel was published by Scott Fitzgerald. Which is the Great Gatsby. It was the most enduring and successful novels. The novel showed a glimpse of the highs and lows of the Roaring twenties.

The American Dream 30-40s interesting fact #1

skozlova — 2026-04-13 16:45:28 UTC

In the 1930s, the American Dream was no longer about getting rich. Meant just having food, a job, just surviving.

The American Dream 30-40s interesting fact #2

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Banks failed and people lost their money, many families became homeless. The dream became a nightmare

The American Dream 50s interesting fact #1

skozlova — 2026-04-16 10:01:01 UTC

In the 1950s household centered on strict gender expectations, with men earning wages, and women managing homes.

The American Dream 50s interesting fact #2

skozlova — 2026-04-16 10:05:41 UTC

Baby Boom. During the 50s, 4 million babies were born yearly in America.

Period Name

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Harlem Renaissance
"The Jazz Age"
"The Roaring 20s"

1920–1940

Period Special dates

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"The New Negro Movement" 1919-1925 Prohibition 1920-1933

Period Characteristics

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1.Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York
2.Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos
3. Other poetry used conventional lyrical forms

Famous authors and works

skozlova — 2026-04-20 19:18:31 UTC

James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

The Jazz age and roaring 20s interesting fact #1

skozlova — 2026-04-20 19:22:31 UTC

More Americans lived in cities than in rural areas.

The Jazz age and the roaring 20s interesting fact #2

skozlova — 2026-04-20 19:24:23 UTC

People began buying more goods like cars, creating mass consumer culture during the Jazz Age.

American dream 60s 70s fact #1

skozlova — 2026-04-24 12:42:21 UTC

The 1970s were frustrating because Americans had to lower their expecations, 1970s economy brought inflation, unemployment and a more pessimistic outlook.

American dream in the 60s-70s fact #2

skozlova — 2026-04-24 12:46:53 UTC

In 1960s things that used to be luxuries, like owning a home, or applicances became noraml for many families, not just rich.

American dream 80s fact #1

skozlova — 2026-04-29 10:47:52 UTC

The 80s strongly tied wealth and material success. The culture emphasized capitalism, ambition and "excess" shown in media like the Wall Street.

American Dream in 80s fact #2

skozlova — 2026-04-29 10:50:42 UTC

Consumerism played a huge role in defining success. Owning luxury goods, big homes and flashy items because symbols of making it. Everything you bought should be displayed.

The American Dream during the 90's and early 2000's fact #1

skozlova — 2026-05-05 09:37:16 UTC

The 1990s American Dream became strongly tied to technology and Silicion Valley success. The rise of the internet created a new and faster American dream. Young tech enterprenuers could easily become billionaires.

The American Dream in the 1990s-early 2000s fact #2

skozlova — 2026-05-05 09:41:18 UTC

The 1990s had strong productivity growth, which helped increase wages and living standards. The growth was driven by full employment, high investment and stable economic conditions.

Period Name

skozlova — 2026-05-11 11:25:21 UTC

Contemporary "Postmodernism"
1950–present

Period Special Dates

skozlova — 2026-05-11 11:25:50 UTC

Korean War
1950-1953

Vietnam War
1954-1975

Period Characteristics

skozlova — 2026-05-11 11:26:15 UTC

1. Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology.
2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates itself.
3. New literary forms and techniques: works composed of only dialogue, or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work.

Famous Authors and Works

skozlova — 2026-05-11 11:26:44 UTC

Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan

Interesting fact #1

skozlova — 2026-05-11 11:32:15 UTC

Samuel Beckett is considered an important figure in postmodern literature. Samuel Beckett was a central writer whose works helped shaped the transition from modernism to postmodernism.

Interesting fact #2

skozlova — 2026-05-11 11:34:50 UTC

Readers are encouraged to question certainty. Post modern texts often avoid clear conclusions or moral lessons, leaving interpreation open-eneded.